Northrop Grumman · 21 hours ago
Sr Principal Systems Engineer - R10217500
Northrop Grumman is a leading technology company that offers revolutionary systems impacting lives globally. They are seeking a skilled Systems Engineer to manage requirements development, test case development, and verification and validation processes, ensuring that customer needs are effectively translated into technical solutions.
AerospaceData IntegrationManufacturingRemote SensingSecurity
Responsibilities
Identifying unique requirements from a broad customer base, flowing the requirements into design documentation, and working with a diverse team to build and test those requirements
Work on the capabilities of current products, performance analyses, design information, and requirements verification methods
Ensure logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints
Perform functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation
Generate, review, and manage multiple requirements sets that cover all aspects of both performance and nonperformance including mechanical interfaces, electrical interfaces, data requirements, environmental requirements, and reliability
Awareness and responsiveness to contract milestones and deliverables
Work with an Agile team to ensure the designs are sufficient to meet the system requirements
Work with various Agile teams to ensure all requirements are verified through inspection, analysis, demonstration, or test often by providing test and data reduction scripts
Facilitate test directions to ensure production tests and troubleshooting tests are executed correctly and resulting data conforms to requirements
Develop simulation models for sensors and systems
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's of Science degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) with 8+ years of engineering experience OR Master's Science degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) with 5+ years experience or a PhD and 3+ years of engineering experience
Experience in System Engineering activities such as: Software requirements development, Requirements development, Test Case development, Verification and Validation i.e. experience running tests and documenting results
Ability to obtain a DoD Secret clearance within a timeframe set forth by management
Ability to work onsite full-time at Woodland Hills, CA
Preferred
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Collaborate with cross-functional teams
Experience supporting test investigations and debugging efforts
Experience with IBM Rational DOORS and technical baseline management
Experience with working in an engineering Agile team
Experience with JIRA
Systems Engineering experience on large, complex systems
Lab and system integration experience
Excellent time management, organizational skills
Understanding and experience with Model Based Systems Engineering and Cameo modeling (or equivalent)
Experience with ClearQuest / ClearCase
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman is an aerospace, defense and security company that provides training and satellite ground network communications software.
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.7BKey Investors
U.S. Department of DefenseNASA
2025-05-27Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-01-29Post Ipo Debt· $2.5B
2023-12-20Grant· $72M
Leadership Team
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